Salinas City Elementary dealings elicit dismay, disgust

As a retired 35-year educator in the Salinas City Elementary School District, I have watched with dismay and disgust the recent events with the school board. The most significant issue in my mind is that fter all the Brinet Greenlee fiasco has dissipated, our district also lost three other dedicated, outstanding administrators – Terri Dye, Melissa Lewington and Connie Rossi-Rains – to nearby schools.

The fact that three board members sat on their hands and watched this happen is disgraceful. The fact that they hide behind some mysterious evaluation process is particularly ironic considering that Dr. (Juvenal) Luza avoided any type of scrutiny when the district allowed itself to be railroaded into taking him as superintendent.

Shame on all involved with this mess. My heart goes out to all the students, parents and teachers in the upcoming year.

Joseph Parrish

Salinas

ALISAL THE NEW EL SALVADOR?

It has been bad enough that gang members are shooting other gang members. Many people feel that if that is what they want to do, go at it, as long as you stay away from me.

I have asked little old ladies in Alisal if they are afraid to walk through the streets, and many are beginning to say that previously they were not, but that now they are getting more uncomfortable especially with what might happen to their children or grandchildren.

The reason is that even the police are being attacked. No law and order.

In so many years of the city leaders talking about it and even bragging about how they have held crime down, nothing but talk is being done.

Why don’t they arrest all the gang members and ship them off to a prison out of state? Or maybe I am wrong in thinking that belonging to a gang is a crime in itself.

The laws are too lenient and the gang members are laughing about all they can get away with. And of course, it makes us Hispanics look bad when so many of our own are involved in this behavior.